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These are more or less best-buy guides and I guess these particular ones are more focused on gaming so probably have over-the-top graphics cards coupled with i5. So you could probably do the opposite trade-off and go i7 coupled with lesser gfx card ...

But to start of it seems the Gigabyte Z77X-D3H + 3770 boxed (save a few $ by not getting the K) & GTX570 (cheapest out of Asus, MSI, EVGA, Gainward or Gigabyte) should be a good base and eat up a good deal of that USD $1000 (not exactly saving $$$ with that GTX570) ...

So after reading up some more , let me take back the workstation gpu recommendation as it's really only "necessary" for certain software like CAD-like and the current consumer gpu's are as good if not better. Aside from that I read of some benefits from the usage of CUDA by Adobe software but specwise a GTX480 has the same amount of CUDA cores as the GTX570. Did read somewhere the 5xx series were supposedly better for photo/video than the new 6xx but wasn't mentioned whether the 5xx are also better than 4xx in that regard. Probably should be double checked ...
I'd probably skip on a gpu completely at first and see how SSD, 16GB RAM & that 3770 work out (can always add a gpu later)Alternatively you could go for a X79 motherboard and see how quad-channel RAM works out, 4x4GB (but needs i7-3820 Sandy)